Beyond convictions, the politics of despair, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...the government vegged out. For a while, it seemed committed to matching the Buhari example over the time taken to ...
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Beyond convictions, the politics of the free market, By Uddin Ifeanyi
As governor, and later as kingmaker in Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s policies were more mercantile (for want of a ...
Making sense of our chattering class, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Why, given the immense problems that the country faces, and the urgency of finding solutions to them, is the national ...
How not to go back to yesterday’s halcyon days, By Uddin Ifeanyi
If nothing else, the history of the Nigerian economy is spoiled with policy flip-flops: a whiff of root-and-branch reform initially ...
Between technocrats and politicos, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Illustration by Binay Sinha. Underwhelmed by the transition committee members’ insistence that the forthcoming federal cabinet comprise experts in the ...
Between import restrictions and a more competitive domestic economy, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Adire eleko In other words, without correcting the impediments to doing business in the country, a ban on imports might ...
Before this camel’s back breaks, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Listen to official policy pronouncements over the years, and it is clear that the “poor and vulnerable” members of our ...
How do we fix this economy?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. ...the part of the conversation over the pace and trajectory of the economy that matters more, ...
Making sense of the new administration, By Uddin Ifeanyi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In office, though, the picture that is emerging is more of a muddle. Mr Tinubu’s inaugural ...
Making sense of Mr Buhari’s eight years, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Former President Muhammadu Buhari Concerned to repurpose the narrative, post-office, the Buhari administration’s Pollyannaish interpretations of its time in office ...
Of inflation and government by explanation, By Uddin Ifeanyi
This unhappy state of the economy, according to the administration’s most recent attempts at making sense of the numbers, was ...
What to think of the chores ahead, By Uddin Ifeanyi
At the heart of these mutually reinforcing dilemmas...is a conceptual error. Ahead of her victory in 1979, Margaret Thatcher forced ...
Why we must remove the subsidy on petrol prices, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...it is going to be difficult for the next federal government to dodge the bullet that is the budget for ...
After eight years of want ― more hardship, By Uddin Ifeanyi
President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Squaring this circle will impose costs across the economy. Someone will have to pay for it. ...
Escheating dormant account balances, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Escheat arrangements set up the sovereign as natural heir in transactions between domestic entities that ...
Between belling the cat and unconditional pardon, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...the holes that have to be plugged over the next one year are as much economic, as they are criminal. ...
From global banking crises to cooked domestic goose, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Consensus is that the domestic markets are not broad and deep ...
Nigerian economy: The case for additional reforms, By Uddin Ifeanyi
This is the often unspoken argument for further domestic reforms. Changes to our rules will not of their own lead ...
Cashless Nigeria: An idea of immeasurable beauty?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
If ever there was a pictorial depiction of the phrase “existential crisis”, conditions in Nigeria today would be it! Now, ...
Letter to the president-elect, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Nigerian President Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. As with every government since we committed to move the economy to a private ...
Banknotes swap and the challenge of good governance, By Uddin Ifeanyi
New Naira notes Command-and-control measures, as we are beginning to discover, by sucking the very lifeblood (as it were) from ...
Monetary policy for scofflaws, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The current process fails, largely, because it presumes collective guilt, until ...
Why are Nigerians this bad?, By Uddin Ifeanyi
One thing, though, remains immutable. The way we think through things has been unaffected by the ructions that have seized ...
In defence of neoliberal economics, By Uddin Ifeanyi
...what makes the attempt to blame Nigeria’s woes on neoliberal economics well-nigh impossible to come to terms with, is more ...
Why we cannot export our way out of this crisis, By Uddin Ifeanyi
The one constant in the domestic export equation over the last century ― a poorly run local economy ― ought ...
